New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us ... and circumstellar discs, broad rings of material orbiting a star) and "the dirty" (dust-obscured processes such as star and planet formation).

JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

A pulsating red star and its spectacular nebula have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. What it is: The variable ...

It was an ingenious mode of attack (and one Hubble would employ to make his breakthrough discovery a few years later). In one of the great research expeditions in modern cosmology, Shapley had ...